hypothesis definition

A tentative explanation for an observation, occurrence, or systematic problem that can be tested by further research.

anything taken up to be true for the true purpose of debate or research; an assumption.

The antecedent of a conditional declaration.

Used loosely, a tentative conjecture describing an observation, trend or clinical problem that may be tested by additional observance, research and/or experimentation. As a scientific term of art, see the attached quotation. Compare to principle, and quote provided indeed there.

An assumption taken to be true for the purpose of argument or research.

The antecedent of a conditional declaration.

A supposition; a proposition or concept which is supposed or taken for granted, to be able to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point under consideration; something perhaps not shown, but assumed for the purpose of debate, or even account for a fact or an occurrence.

A tentative concept or supposition provisionally followed to spell out particular facts, and guide in investigation of other individuals; ergo, frequently known as a working hypothesis.

a tentative insight into the natural globe; a concept that is not yet validated but when true would describe certain realities or phenomena

A condition; that from which one thing follows: as, freedom may be the hypothesis of democracy.

A proposition thought and assumed, to be used as a premise in appearing another thing; a postulate.

A supposition; a judgment concerning an imaginary state of things, and/or imaginary condition of things it self concerning whose consequences some declaration is made or question is expected; the antecedent of a conditional idea; the proposition disproved by reductio advertisement absurdum.

the final outcome of an argument from consequent and antecedent; a proposition held become probably true because its consequences, relating to known basic principles, are observed to be true; the supposition that an object has a specific character, from where it would fundamentally follow it must have various other characters which it is observed to obtain.

An ill-supported concept; a proposition not thought, but whose effects it really is thought desirable examine with facts.